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- From: pf@bilbo.bio.purdue.edu (Paul Furbacher)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
- Subject: Re: BP 7.0 upgrade and ProtoGen
- Message-ID: <34058@adm.brl.mil>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 18:18:13 GMT
- Sender: news@adm.brl.mil
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- | Karl Gudmunds / I've fallen and I can't |
- | KARLG@ERS.BITNET 0<-< reach my keyboard! |
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- |----------------------------Original message----------------------------
- |In article <19921111131105.h198@hosp.med.umich.edu>,
- | h198@hosp.med.umich.edu (Gene Mangum) writes:
- |>
- |> I *think* I saw a comment here a couple of days ago that owning both
- |> TP 6 and TPW entitled one to a free copy of ProtoGen. The article
- |> said something to the effect of "read your upgrade notice carefully".
- |> Well, I have, and I still can't find this.
- |
- |Steve Modena penned the comment and I'm glad he did. I had missed
- |it in the upgrade letter (it was not in the postcard).
- |
- |Flip the upgrade letter over, look for the signature and
- |begin reading backwards. You'll find it quickly.
- |Best way to proof read.
- |
- |Oddly, when I first called the Borland sales desk
- |to order the upgrade, I was *sold* Protogen for $49.95.
- |At the time, I was responding to the pre-release postcard.
- |The real upgrade notice came the next day, and I
- |didn't read it carefully enough to see that I should
- |have gotten it free. My next call to Borland corrected the
- |matter.
- |
- |Thanks Steve.
- |
- |PF
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- Did Borland send out more than 1 version of the upgrade letter? I never
- moved to TPW 1.5 from 1.0 and the only mention of ProtoGen in the upgrade
- letter I received says it is $49.95. I read backwards/forwards/sideways
- from the signature (Paul Gross) and can't find a freebee offer.
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